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I use the French forums, because I am learning French at school. My grammar's not great, but I can answer basic questions in French. I don't really see a problem with that, do you?

I would encourage everyone to use this forum regardless bad or good English grammar. English is my second language and I do not believe that people should be discriminated because someone does not like or do not tolerate grammatical mistakes. Google translator is quite good and translations are not that bad. I use many forums and google translator is invaluable resource.

There is a lack of a number of scratchers in the foreign language forums and many questions go around unanswered. Anyone that goes into the trouble of using Google Translate or whatever to answer their questions is doing everyone a big favour!

I don't know any of the languages. If I see something in a Latin-based language that looks interesting (like a Spanish Scratch Wiki), I might stop in, translate the posts, and translate my reply. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Nowadays it usually always does—if it isn't in the right sense you can even change it a bit and it WILL be right. I'm still decent at french and I'll try what I can.

Protip: Canada.

i personally think scratch should have a translator thing so you can translate other ppls and ur posts to other languages

my great grandfather was Swedish. he's coming in a month or two  I've been using Google translate to try to learn Swedish.

rememberchicken wrote:

Aliquam quis ligula non magnus est! Donec rutrum est interpretari fine! Im usura is vox iam!

E divertente. Amo questo traduttore. 

I'm trying to fluently learn french.

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People want to post okay? They would like to share their knowledge with  others 

cheddargirl wrote:

CatPerson wrote:

People want to post okay? They would like to share their knowledge with  others 

Because Google translate isn't very accurate (it's riddled with a lot of grammatical errors when translating), it isn't a good idea to use it to post a reply for the sake of simply posting in another forum that isn't your language.The forums are largely for people who are capable of replying in said forum section. Some people find it rude or insulting when they see a machine-translation.

There might be some leniency in using a machine translation to give help (in which the original should also be given since machine translations are not reliable), but using a machine to translate a post just for the sake of posting is not okay.

What if I'm learning a language in school, and with my knowledge, I try to talk to them about scratch?

@PlutoisHades I'm in 中文课 too！

Last edited by HiddenPerson (2012-02-07 19:32:30)

ProgramCAT wrote:

Well, if you genuinely learn or know a language and are interested in helping people or communicating with a diverse range of Scratchers, then posting on the Other Languages forums should be good.
However, I don't recommend just posting for the sake of it to increase your post count.

Spam is also not appreciated by almost all people, except for spammers. ^^^

Fixed. ^^